Lot Essay
The one time pupil of Arthur Hughes and Ford Maddox Brown, Goodwin was predicted by the latter to 'become before long one of the greatest landscape painters of the age'. His artistic education was furthered by John Ruskin who accompanied him to Switzerland and Italy in 1872, and thereafter travel was to play a large part in his working life. Visits were made to Egypt (1876), India (1895), the West Indies and North America (1902 and 1912) and New Zealand (1917), but frequent trips were also made to the continent. A prodigious worker, Goodwin exhibited prolifically, at the the Royal Academy, the Old Watercolour Society and elsewhere.